GNOME Classic in Ubuntu 12.04: It’s Like Nothing Ever Changed

Come April 26th and the release of Ubuntu 12.04 a vast number of Ubuntu users will be getting their first taste of the Unity desktop since its basic beginnings as the Ubuntu Netbook Remix in the last LTS.

But for all of the innovation, aesthetics and features that the unity desktop offers there is a chance that, for many, the change will be too much.

But Unity is only one desktop environment available to install in Ubuntu.

GNOME Classic

“GNOME Classic” (properly referred to ‘GNOME Fallback’) is one such option, and is arguably the most familiar to that of the Ubuntu desktop that shipped in Ubuntu 10.04 by default.

Applications and folders can be sorted and accessed through a menu, windows can managed using a bottom panel.

Indicator applets, as well as GNOME applets, can be added to the panels.